Let me just start by saying that I didn't start with Bungie from the beginning. No, I wasn't around as a Bungie fan back into the Pathways time. The first real exposure to Bungie I got was when my computer shipped with a Marathon 2 CD. I played it and played it and loved it. But I didn't really care that it was made by some company named Bungie. I soon forgot about Marathon and Bungie alltogether. I remembered hearing something about Myth: TFL back then, but I forgot that too. I was an Ambrosia Software guy, following in the wake of Escape Velocity (the best shareware title I've ever played).

After Ambrosia went dud after EV, I still played their games, but was really bored. What interested me was a friend who talked about Myth: TFL and Myth II: Soulblighter. Eventually I bought these games. I love them still. That's when I became a die-hard no prisoners Bungie fan. All these Blizzard folks, let me say this: Starcraft is ok, but once you've played Bungie games, (at least I) would never go back. We've all been waiting for Halo and Oni. I was really going there, posting on forums (maybe under a different name tho') and checking on fan sites all the time. But what did that come to? Where did it end? It ended here. Bungie, whom I loved and made my life what it is now, sold out to the most malignant software company I can think of, Microsoft.

I was shocked. Bungie, selling out? Where was the spirit of independence that we had all grown to love? Where was the fire? Where were the gunshots and firebombs? Where was the whole pretext of taking over the world? Now, we have just another gaming company like Blizzard, which puts out xbox games and PC games and begins to forget its humble beginnings. Bungie really was the statment of the fact that small, independent gaming companies could survive. It was an axiom. We are left alone now. We are left with mere shadows of what was once great. And once I heard about this bungie sell-out site, I am gonna say what I wanted to say all the time with dismay in my chest, with great sighs and sadness, goodbye, Bungie. We're gonna miss you.

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